Washington’s NATO Envoy: ‘I get most info on Ukraine conflict from social networks’
This story proves that our ‘diplomats’ do not have a clue what they’re doing, much less what really happening.
Last summer, Washington used its US ambassador to the Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, to launch their fabricated social media campaign designed to blame Russia for “firing artillery over its border into the Ukraine”.
It was an online hoax that even a student could pull off – hoax which managed to fool CNN, FOX News, the BBC and other mainstream media giants. Pyatt had simply grabbed a series of images off of the Google World-style satellite mapping website Digital Globe, claiming it was “evidence” of Russia artillery fired into eastern Ukraine. Here’s the infamous Tweet that started the lie.
It seems that even Washington’s highest ranking foreign service representatives rely on Tweets and Facebook posts to keep up with ‘Russian aggression’ in the Ukraine.
Thus far, this photo is NATO’s most convincing ‘evidence’ of Russian troops and tanks invading the Ukraine…
The US Permanent Representative to NATO, Douglas Lute, has admitted that his knowledge about the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine comes mostly from social networks rather than intelligence reports.
US Permanent Representative to NATO, Douglas Lute.
“We should all ask ourselves: why is it that we know so little really about what is going on in Donbass,” the US ambassador to NATO told “Friends of Europe” forum in Brussels.
“I mean, frankly, I read more on social media about what is going on in the Donbass than I get from formal intelligence networks. This is because the networks don’t exist today,” Lute said.
READ MORE: Busted: Kiev MPs try to fool US senator with ‘proof’ of Russian tanks in Ukraine
The US envoy to NATO then backtracked, reacting to a comment made by Elena Donova, a member of the Russian delegation to NATO.
“I didn’t say that we ignored our intelligence sources. I just said that compared to the Cold War the systems that we once had twenty years ago have atrophied,” he said, adding that the “things have fundamentally changed.”
The reliability of social media as a source of information has been questioned throughout the conflict in Ukraine.
The latest example is an April tweet by US ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt claiming that Russia’s military were continuing to expand their presence in eastern Ukraine. As for proof, Pyatt posted a two-year-old picture of an air defense system from an air show near Moscow.
Last July, Russia’s Defense Ministry questioned the authenticity of the satellite images of alleged shelling of Ukraine from Russian territory. It said the images were “created by US counselors” and posted by Pyatt on his Twitter microblog in an “informational merry-go-round” of fake pictures.
In August, Russia’s Defense Ministry spokesman Major-General Igor Konashenkov ridiculed another so-called NATO proof, saying: “If earlier, someone would at least put their names on those images, be it Breedlove, Rasmussen, or even Lungescu, now, they are hesitant. It makes no sense to seriously comment on this,” he said.
Yet, this February, Ukrainian MPs followed the line, presenting a US senator with photos of what they said were Russian military hardware columns on Ukrainian territory. However, it turned out that the photos had been taken during Russia’s conflict with Georgia in South Ossetia back in 2008…
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Source: http://21stcenturywire.com/2015/05/08/washingtons-nato-envoy-i-get-most-info-on-ukraine-conflict-from-social-networks/
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